Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 14 octobre 2014, 01.13:48 Wookey a écrit : > I'm just pointing out that interested people, who are moderately > well-involved, really did miss that a GR was attempted. For the record, I don't disagree; I'm just saying that the GR call was on the right list and that I think that the proj

Re: Bug#765076: general: No way to have a clean chroot for building packages

2014-10-14 Thread Holger Levsen
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Re: Any news about Blends in tasks selection (Was: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 release)

2014-10-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Cyril, On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 06:02:11AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Andreas Tille (2014-10-08): > > On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 09:11:24PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second beta > > > release of the installer f

Re: Any news about Blends in tasks selection (Was: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 release)

2014-10-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi again Andreas, Andreas Tille (2014-10-14): > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 06:02:11AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > well to be honest the whole blend story came as a surprise. > > Ahhh, this in turn is surprising for me since the first "version" of > this bug is dated 24 Mar 2003 (#186085) :-).

Processed: Re: Bug#765076: general: No way to have a clean chroot for building packages

2014-10-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > reassign -1 general Bug #765076 [debootstrap] variant=buildd should not install init systems Bug reassigned from package 'debootstrap' to 'general'. Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #765076 to the same values previously set Ignoring request to alter f

Bug#765333: ITP: node-finalhandler -- final HTTP responder

2014-10-14 Thread Leo Iannacone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Leo Iannacone X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-finalhandler Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Douglas Christopher Wilson * URL : https://github.com/pillarjs/finalhandler * License : Expat

Re: Any news about Blends in tasks selection (Was: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 release)

2014-10-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Cyril, On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:14:53AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > > In other words: I perfectly know the fact that Blends are widely > > ignored even amongst Debian developers and that's not about you / the > > debian-boot team - perhaps my "running around and tell people" is just

Re: Bug#765336: RFP: black-hole-solver - Solver (C API + CLI program) for "Black Hole" Solitaire and "All in a Row" Solitaire

2014-10-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Ma, 14 oct 14, 12:04:36, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Package: black-hole-solver > Severity: wishlist > > The Black Hole Solitaire Solver - > http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/black-hole-solitaire-solver/ - > is a solver for "Black Hole" card Solitaire and "All i

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes ("Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)"): > Le mardi, 14 octobre 2014, 01.13:48 Wookey a écrit : > > I'm just pointing out that interested people, who are moderately > > well-involved, really did miss that a GR was attempted. > > For the record, I don't disagree; I'

Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages

2014-10-14 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
On 2014-09-25 22:23:19 [+0800], Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 09/25/2014 06:02 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > As wrote by others earlier, that's the amount of memory needed for > compression. 65 MB of RAM is needed for decompression. That's nothing!!! just imagine you have one of the recent smaller box

Bug#765350: ITP: node-serve-index -- directory listings middleware for Node.js

2014-10-14 Thread Leo Iannacone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Leo Iannacone X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-serve-index Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : Douglas Christopher Wilson * URL : https://github.com/expressjs/serve-index * License : Expat

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:11:35AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > I think in future we should probably make a habit of posting something > to d-d-a when there is a GR proposal. Yep, liw made the same point on -project in response to a thread I started there on this subject. I still feel we don't adeq

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/13/2014 at 01:01 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >> In any case, users _do_ have a say. They can force their systems to >> remain on sys5 init, or switch to a different distro if that should >> also turn out > > Which, I should add, i

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, Ian Jackson wrote: > I think in future we should probably make a habit of posting something > to d-d-a when there is a GR proposal. If the proposer thinks posting to d-d-a is a good idea, then they should just do it. Any DD can, after all. They should ideally point out the is

Bug#765382: ITP: mailman-api -- REST API daemon to interact with Mailman 2

2014-10-14 Thread Antonio Terceiro
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Antonio Terceiro * Package name: mailman-api Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Sergio Oliveira * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailman-api/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Python Description : REST API da

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-10-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thorsten Glaser > Stephane Chazelas dixit: > > [ a lot, with which I vehemently disagree ] > > >If you need arrays, use "$@" or use "perl/python/ruby...", but > >please don't break yet another shell with the Korn arrays or > >arithmetics. > > The good part about mksh i̲s̲ that it’s a progra

Re: Any news about Blends in tasks selection (Was: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 release)

2014-10-14 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:20:02AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > I admit I expected *you* to know about Blends for a while - but > considering the video recorded quote I think I was not wrong using this > chance to point this out for other readers of this mail as it is really > a fact that I always

Bug#765396: ITP: c-script -- c++ script language

2014-10-14 Thread Junji Hashimoto
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Junji Hashimoto X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-de...@lists.debian.or.jp Package name: c-script Version: 0.1 Upstream Author: Junji Hashimoto URL: https://github.com/junjihashimoto/c-script License: GPL-2+ Des

Re: Any news about Blends in tasks selection (Was: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 2 release)

2014-10-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Bas Wijnen (2014-10-14 19:19:36) > I have heard about [Blends] for quite a while, indeed, but I must say > that I never entirely understood what they are. I'm guessing I'm not > alone in this. So let me write what I think they are, and then you > can correct me. I've read the explanat

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Axel Wagner
Hi, The Wanderer writes: > Unfortunately, not everyone - or even everyone who would be willing to > provide such feedback, or even actively interested in doing so - is > going to install that. Luckily, popcon is opt-in anyway, so this has no effect whatsoever on it's quality as a data source. B

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 06:18:01PM +0200, lee wrote: > Considering that the users are Debians' priority, couldn't this issue be > a case in which significant concerns from/of the users about an issue > might initiate a GR? Wouldn't it speak loudly for Debian and its ways > and for what it stands f

Bug#765432: ITP: node-fd-slicer -- safely create multiple ReadStream or WriteStream objects from the same file descriptor - Node.js module

2014-10-14 Thread Andrew Kelley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Kelley X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-fd-slicer Version : 0.3.2 Upstream Author : Andrew Kelley * URL : https://github.com/andrewrk/node-fd-slicer * License : Expat Programming

Bug#765433: ITP: node-content-disposition -- Create and parse Content-Disposition header - Node.js module

2014-10-14 Thread Andrew Kelley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Kelley X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-content-disposition Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : Douglas Christopher Wilson * URL : https://github.com/jshttp/content-disposition * License

Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages

2014-10-14 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Paul Wise (p...@debian.org): > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > As wrote by others earlier, that's the amount of memory needed for > > compression. 65 MB of RAM is needed for decompression. That's nothing!!! > > That is half the RAM available on my Debian-base

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-10-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:43:08AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 13, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > > Policy effectively states that Debian packages shall not depend on any > > features which posh doesn't have. > > So in what way is that a bad idea, and how should one know beforehand? > That t